The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-04
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He Pours His Woes Into the Ear OF
Bill Nye.

He Pours His Woes Into the Ear Of
Bill Nye.
On board day coach of the great trunk
line running from the Battery via Sixth ave-
nue. to Harlem fell in the other day with a
highly cultivated old gentleman who now re-
sides in Brooklyn. Together we enjoyed the
delightful stretch of dark red scenery and ad-
vertisements which greets the enraptured eye
along this great scenic route Together we
inhaled the thousand odors of hot, sour
alleys and damp cellars, and together we
looked into second story rooms where pow
erty lay painting in the awful heat that had
accumulated all day and now shut down with
the night like sitting garment. In our
conversation he said:
II generally aim to let the papers alone If
they'll let me alone, but when first came
here friend of mine brought me slip that
he had cut out of a prominent morning pa
per in which my name was used in way
that made me mad and so l went right
down to the office of the paper. Before l
went l told my wife about the piece and
that I was going to see about it, She saw
that was excited and she became alarmed
She hung on to me quite while and said
she wished wouldn't 60 We had always
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married had never killed anybody, and she
wished would take her advice and not go,
but l was thoroughly indignant and mad
So went down, and at the counter l asked
| to see the editor.
1.-THE young man at the window where l
went was counting the words in Want ad-
vertisement, and it was n long time before
could get his eye. Then he said in brief,
cold way that the editorial rooms were on the
fifth floor. did not like his way, and would
have been glad to lick him if could have got
over into his cage, but l couldn't Then
went to the elevator. | was going to get in
but the elevator boy, who weighed about
nineteen pounds, put his hand against my
person and gently pushed me out
"'You can't go upstairs without stating
your name and your business and who yot
want to see. Here is a card that you can fill
OUT
ale said would have to be explicit II
wanted the city editor, or the marine editor
or the literary editor, or the polo editor, o.
the birth and death editor, or the scrappinl
editor, would find them in; but the manag
ing editor and the telegraph editor and thu
night editor and the mirth editor and thu
bathing editor were all out.
"Finally went in and found a small, goot
natured man that could have handled with
out any trouble, but wien stated my bust
ness he said that it was not in his line at all
but that ought to go to the city editor. BY
that time the city editor had gone to lunch.
waited for him till got so hungry myself
that thought would fall apart.
"When he came he had about nineteen mer
to talk to all at once for an hour or so; ther
he let me in and told him what the trouble
was. He didn't remember any such story il
the paper as spoke about, but would find ou
| about it and see what reporter handed it in
Meantime he would advise me to write out {
statement of my side of the case and leave 1
there He would investigate the matte
: when the reporters got in in the evening.